Press

Helsinki, Finland November 27, 2009

WOT Services Ltd., the company behind the reputation rating services Web of Trust (WOT) and Community Trust Network (CTN) launched a new cooperation with the leading Internet payment provider in Finland, Suomen Verkkomaksut Ltd. The aim of cooperation is to help web shops communicate their trustworthiness and reliability and promote the overall security of e-commerce operations to consumers.

“Over 7 million Internet users globally trust the safer Internet related services we offer. Our latest service, CTN, offers web shops a new way to increase sales by marketing their trustworthiness which is based on the objective reputation ratings given by the WOT community. Suomen Verkkomaksut is a natural partner for us because their mission and operating principles are similar with our values,” says Vesa Perälä, CEO of WOT.

”One of our objectives is to promote the growth of e-commerce and enable the best results for all stakeholders. The Community Trust Network service by WOT supports this initiative by offering an objective and credible rating system for the web shops”, continues Lennu Keinänen, the CEO of Suomen Verkkomaksut Ltd.

WOT Services Ltd. focuses on developing and providing software and services for the WOT community and promotes the community's goals of safer Internet for everyone. WOT has over 7 million users who have rated the reputation of 25 million web sites.

Suomen Verkkomaksut Oy is the leading Internet payment services provider in Finland whose services are used by over 1000 customers. Suomen Verkkomaksut offers all payment methods with ease and convenience. In addition, Suomen Verkkomaksut guarantees that the web shop receives the payment fast and the consumer always gets either the purchased product or their money back.

More information:

WOT Services Ltd.
Vesa Perälä CEO
Tel. +358 40 5860863
vesa (at) mywot.com

Suomen Verkkomaksut Oy
Lennu Keinänen CEO
Tel. +358 44 7767827
lennu.keinanen (at) verkkomaksut.fi

Helsinki, Finland November 16, 2009

The reputation rating service Web of Trust is the top Finnish company in the 2009 SIME Rising Stars of the North, and fifth overall in the Nordics. The 12-member jury selected the WOT browser add-on as top in Finland because it uses a high level of innovation and has created a unique product with a clear end-user focus. WOT and its new commercial product, the Community Trust Network, was judged to have great potential to become a commercial success and mean a lot to users and customers.

An independent professional jury handpicked 36 promising, young nominees from a field of 150 companies based in Scandinavia. WOT, from Helsinki, Finland, demonstrated competences within technology, strategy, and communication making it the top achiever of all companies nominated from Finland. The awards were given at a gala event in Stockholm on November 12. SIME is northern Europe’s largest conference about the Internet and digital opportunities. http://sime.nu/

Free browser add-on warns against online threats

Web of Trust is a community-based safe surfing tool that uses an intuitive traffic-light style rating system to help Internet users stay safe as they search, browse, and shop online. The WOT add-on provides safety ratings to search results when using Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and other popular sites, helping people protect their computers and personal information. Website ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from trusted sources, like Panda Security and PhishTank. The free Internet security add-on works with popular browsers and can be downloaded at http://www.mywot.com.

The Community Trust Network

The Community Trust Network is a program specially designed for online shop owners whose sites have superior reputations. CTN tools help e-commerce and other sites to publicize their trustworthiness and to collect ratings and feedback in a neutral way. The end result for website owners is that they attract new visitors, improve their reputation, and boost sales by increasing confidence and trust. CTN is WOT’s first commercial product. Site owners can have a 1-month free trial. http://www.mywot.com/ctn

Supporting Facts of WOT

• WOT has been downloaded 7 million times
• Reputation information for 25 million websites
• Available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome
• WOT is open source software
• WOT receives additional information from trusted sources, such as Panda Security, PhishTank, TRUSTe and hpHosts

Resources

• WOT videos
• Screen prints, logos, and photos

Contact

Vesa Perälä, CEO
+358 40 586 0863
vesa (at) mywot.com
WOT Services Ltd. Italahdenkatu 27 A
00210 Helsinki, Finland
www.mywot.com

Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB) November 3, 2009 --

WOT Services Ltd, the company behind the reputation rating service Web of Trust, launched the Community Trust Network (CTN), a program that gives websites with superior reputations tools to publicize their trustworthiness and to collect ratings and feedback in a neutral way. The end result for website owners is that they attract new visitors, improve their reputation, and boost sales by increasing confidence and trust. 

Today's Internet surfers use online tools like WOT to share their experiences and express their opinions about companies. Candidates for CTN membership already have excellent or good reputations as rated by the millions of members of the WOT community. Businesses without their own mechanism to collect customer feedback use WOT's rating information to establish a fair, unbiased, easy-to-use system to collect and promote feedback and ratings that will attract new customers to their site.

"My business lives and dies by the trust of my customers, and I want to show potential customers that my website and my business can be trusted. The WOT community has rated my site highly in all categories, and with the Community Trust Network, I now have a way to communicate that to all my site's visitors," said Ed Coyne, owner of Angelo PC, in San Angelo, Texas.

The Community Trust Network includes:

• Trust seals & Rate us buttons
• A certificate with real-time WOT ratings and comments
• An easy-to-use feedback tool
• Reputation alerts
• CTN icon to help you stand out in search results

CTN's tools are flexible and easy to integrate into any website. Visitors can submit ratings for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety using the WOT reputation rating system, along with detailed comments. To make it open for all, site visitors do not have to be members of WOT to rate the site.

Membership prices begin at $19.90 per month for non-commercial sites. There is a free 30-day trial for new customers. Sign up at www.mywot.com/ctn

Free security add-on warns against online threats:

Web of Trust is a community-powered safe surfing tool that uses an intuitive traffic-light style rating system to help Internet users stay safe as they search, browse, and shop online. The WOT security add-on provides safety ratings to search results when using Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and other popular sites, helping people protect their computers and personal information. Website ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from trusted sources, like Panda Security and PhishTank. The free Internet security add-on works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. WOT can be downloaded at http://www.mywot.com.

Supporting Facts of WOT

• WOT has been downloaded over 7 million times
• Reputation information for 25 million websites
• Available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome
• WOT is open source software
• WOT receives additional information from trusted sources, such as Panda Security, PhishTank, TRUSTe, and hpHosts

Resources

WOT videos

Screen prints, logos, and photos

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Contact

Deborah Salmi
WOT Services
+358.40.735.6640